After reading the Tom's Hardware review of the AMD A8 - 3850 cpu I went to Passmark to see what the CPU rating is and it is 5922. It is, according to Passmark, a blazing fast cpu.
However, Chris Angelini (TH's reviewer) says that for the money "...AMD’s Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (PassMark: 2607) with a Radeon HD 6570... is almost certainly faster than Llano’s very Athlon-ish design. And the discrete GPU is absolutely quicker than the Radeon HD 6550D logic inside of Llano."
I would have guessed that the discrete HD 6570 gpu is faster than the integrated gpu. However, I would not have guessed that the A8 cpu would be slower than an overclocked Phenom II X3 720.
What exactly does the passmark score mean? Is it something that is best ignored?
However, Chris Angelini (TH's reviewer) says that for the money "...AMD’s Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition (PassMark: 2607) with a Radeon HD 6570... is almost certainly faster than Llano’s very Athlon-ish design. And the discrete GPU is absolutely quicker than the Radeon HD 6550D logic inside of Llano."
I would have guessed that the discrete HD 6570 gpu is faster than the integrated gpu. However, I would not have guessed that the A8 cpu would be slower than an overclocked Phenom II X3 720.
What exactly does the passmark score mean? Is it something that is best ignored?